MLAutoAssocation.java

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package org.encog.ml;

/**
 * Defines a MLMethod that can handle autoassocation.  Autoassociation is a 
 * simple form of pattern recognition where the MLMethod echos back the 
 * exact pattern that the input most closely matches.  For example, if the 
 * autoassociative MLMethod were trained to recognize an 8x8 grid of 
 * characters, the return value would be the entire 8x8 grid of the 
 * character recognized.
 * 
 * This is the type of recognition performed by Hopfield Networks.  It is
 * also an optional recognition form used by GR/PNN's.  This is a form of
 * unsupervised training.
 *
 */
public interface MLAutoAssocation extends MLRegression {

}